It didn’t, but the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster was born. Upon stopping, they noticed an enormous creature with a “body resembling a whale” sending out “waves that were big enough to have been sent out by a passing steamer.” Stunned, the couple waited around almost half-an-hour in the “hope that the monster (if such it was) would come to the surface again.”

The May 1933 Inverness Courier article explains how a well-known businessman and his wife were driving along the north shore of Loch Ness when they witnessed a “tremendous upheaval” in the water. A small column in a local newspaper 86 years ago inspired a monstrous myth.